Programs

Community Building

A monthly feminist focused crafting series aimed at building community through craftivsm--or craft-activism. Craftivism the act of making and using crafts to promote social justice and civic responsibility. All sessions are from 4:00pm-5:30pm in the Women's Center.

Aug. 30th Subversive Cross-Stitch

Sept. 27th Body Positive Decoupage

Oct. 25th Rainbow Blanket Knitting Party

Nov. 29th Social Justice Rocks!

For more information contact Erin Mulligan at erin.mulligan@uc.edu

Soul Café

A monthly program facilitated by the Women's Center and Sister Leslie Keener of Campus Ministries that supports open and engaging conversations among students of all faiths and spiritual backgrounds.

Free Breakfast! Every 3rd Wednesday: August 24th, September 21st, October 19th, November 23rd at 10am, Women’s Center

A student led program that fosters reflection, creativity, and both written and verbal communication among students. The Writing Circle allows students to enjoy the company of others while they process and discuss poetry, short stories, and written work that they have authored or brought for consideration.

Education and Activism

Zine Team

The Zine Team is a small group of students who—utilizing the space, resources, and guidance of the Women's Center and its staff—imagine, create, and distribute a bi-yearly zine on a feminist focused topic.

Thursdays, at 4:30pm, Women’s Center:

Oct 6- Immigrants and New Americans

January 12- Anti-Racist Allyship and #BlackLivesMatter

March 2- LGBTQ Allies

Leadership and Professional Development

A program that encourages and trains college women to run for student government and future political office. A collaboration between AAUW and Running Start, Elect Her addresses the need to expand the pipeline of women candidates and to diminish the longstanding political leadership gender gap. RSVP at Campus Link!

A 3-year cohort-based program comprised of both academic and co-curricular experiences designed to develop a student’s leadership over the course of their undergraduate collegiate experience. Students meet regularly throughout the semester to build community, learn more about social justice and enact leadership through a community action project designed to link student initiative with community issues and needs.

We are now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 WILL cohort. Apply here!

A monthly professional development series that empowers women students with insights, tools, and strategies for getting prepared for the working world. Student will focus on their personal strengths, interests, and values as they relate to major discovery, career exploration, and job navigation by creating smart goals, mapping out steps for their college trajectory and networking with UC peers and professionals in the community.

Sexual Assault Awareness Week 2016

Focusing on the Black Lives Matter movement, and tackling the problematic All Lives Matter countermovement, as well as disparities in employment and education, this panel addresses how Black feminism incorporates issues lacking in mainstream feminism. Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public. Mark you calendar.For more information, please contact Janeece West at west2js@mail.uc.edu.

Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women

Lynn Rosenthal,
White House Advisor on Violence Against Women

November 21, 2014: The #ItsOnUs forum and associated Title IX Coordinators Panel and Student Leaders Break-Out Sessions served as an opportunity to hear directly from the White House on current responses to sexual violence on campus including: White House Task Force recommendations, national responses to the recommendations, and the recently launched #ItsOnUs campaign.

This Talk Historicized the variety of ways that Black Women have been positioned in response to Black Freedom Movements, specifically how an investment in the politics of respectability breaks down in the current Movement for Black Lives.